Five bowlers from the past who could have troubled Virat Kohli

#4 Curtly Ambrose

Ambrose has troubled the best of batsmen in the past

Standing tall at 6 feet 7 inches, Ambrose’s height would have been the first challenge for Kohli. He might have faced a 7-footer Mohammad Irfan, but the remarkable accuracy from Ambrose, coupled with the extreme pace he had in the initial part of his career, would have set the alarm bells ringing for the current Indian skipper.

With his high arm action angling the ball into right-handers, any subtle movement away from the batsman would be difficult to play.

Also, he had the tendency to pitch the ball in areas that made the batsman ask the pertinent question: should I play the ball, or leave it?

He would set the batsman up often, moving one ball slightly away after pitching it just outside off stump, then following it up with a perfect inswinger that used to find just enough space to sneak through the gap between the bat and front pad, a problem Kohli has had to face at certain points in his career.

On swifter pitches away from home, the 28-year-old would have had some trouble adjusting to Ambrose’s barrage of genuinely pacy deliveries.